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    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Media pouring acid on people's brains making them think that there are murderers and cut purses around every corner and bush.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        for real. 430 burglary related homicides a year. covid kills more and there isnt a moral panic about that

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Right-wing media has convinced a legion of heavily armed boomers that armies of blm terrorists are coming for their whiteness.

          • egg1916 [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Literally this. I knew so many boomers in my mayo ass suburban town who actually stocked up on ammo in 2020 because they were convinced BLM protestors were gonna come to their house to burn it down. These are all "good" people too

            • cawsby [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Does Red State America realize that Blue States hold most of the international shipping ports?

              If it came to civil war 2.0 Blue States could cut off MAGAland from most of the world's economy overnight.

              No one is going to invade the suburbs.

      • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        i mean i feel like it goes both ways.

        liberal media also makes it as if this stuff isn't always happening and reports on things selectively when they need to run distraction or need to drum up some scaremongering

        • cawsby [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          All my liberal stations went full blame-crime-on-the-homeless/poors back when Covid hit and never let up since.

          There ain't many outlets not pushing crime narratives that are wildly out of step of reality.

          My town's violent crime rate is down 30% this year but the local media is covering murders more and for longer.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Whenever a cop dies in a shoot out it gets pasted across the news for at least a month and then they name a park after them.